Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 522
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This seminar offers a survey of literary and cultural expressions in the period of American modernism (1900-1940s). The focus is on the representation of diversity in terms of race, class, and gender and the solutions suggested to overcome outdated traditions and their patterns of discrimination. In the combination of familiar and less studied examples we will transcend the narrow philological period definition to account for the contributions of underprivileged people and underrepresented genres to a diversified transnational modernism. Please see the syllabus in the Inhalt section and start reading the texts during the semester break.
Inhalt: April 18 Introduction: What is Modernism? April 25 Launching the Modern Movement in the Arts and Literature - Ragtime - The Armory Show - Imagism - Provincetown Players May 2 T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro" Eugene O'Neill, "Bound East for Cardiff" May 9 Gertrude Stein, "Melanctha" (1906) Angelina Weld Grimke, Rachel: A Play of Protest (1916) May 16 Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke, "The New N*" (1925) Countee Cullen, "Heritage" (1925) Al Jonson, The Jazz Singer (1927) May 23 Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke, "The New N*" (1925) Countee Cullen, "Heritage" (1925) Al Jonson, The Jazz Singer (1927) May 30 The Living Newspaper: "One Third of a Nation" (1937) F. D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address June 6 John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) June 13 William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936) June 20 William Faulkner and Southern Literature June 27 Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) July 4 Richard Wright, Native Son (1939) July 11 Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949) July 18 Tillie Olson, "I Stand Here Ironing" in Tell Me a Riddle (1956)
Empfohlene Literatur: see Syllabus in Inhalt
